Use and respond to the initial fresh qualities but consider them absolutely expendable.

I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put a few arbitrary marks on it that start me on some sort of dialogue.

Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion.

All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression

Mistakes can't be erased, but they move you from your present position.

In a successful painting everything is integral - all the parts belong to the whole. If you remove an aspect or element you are removing its wholeness.

One wants to see the artifice of the thing as well as the subject.

If you get an image try to destroy it.

I would like the colors, their shapes and positions to be arrived at in response to and dictated by the condition of the total space at the time they are considered.

My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful, the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles.

I came to mistrust my desire to explode the picture and supercharge it in some way… what is more important is a feeling of strength in reserve – tension beneath calm.

We often focus on what is wrong and complain that nothing is beautiful.

Until you are clear nothing will be. The moment you are clear everything will be.

My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.

A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.

I resent performing for frisking idiots who don't know anything.

I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies.

We raise awareness and drop information about access and laws into pop culture spaces through making videos and through live events. That's like fifty percent of what we do.

You have to wake up and you have to run if you want to survive.

For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.

Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.